Teaching Committee Sponsors Best Practices Competition
Deadline: Entries should be received by 5 p.m. (Eastern time), Monday, March 4.
For the eighth year, AEJMC’s Elected Committee on Teaching is looking to honor innovative teaching ideas from colleagues. Each year, the committee selects three winners in a themed competition highlighting different areas across the journalism and mass communication curriculum.
The 2013 Best Practices competition will focus on “Teaching with Tools and Technologies.” This area is broad, and ideas from all disciplines represented among our membership are welcomed. The emphasis is on innovative ways tools and technologies are integrated into the learning environment, either as used by instructors in presenting materials or by students in learning new tools.
The AEJMC Teaching Committee will select winning entries for publication in our seventh annual AEJMC Best Practices in Teaching competition that will be published in an e-booklet. Winners are required to share their entries during a teaching session at the AEJMC annual conference in Washington, DC, Aug. 8-11. Winners also will receive certificates and a cash prize: first: $250, second: $150, third: $100. Honorable mentions may also be awarded, but no cash will be provided for those entries.
Submission Guidelines
(1) Your entry should be in one single Word file (.doc or .docx) or Text (.txt) file. PDFs will not be accepted as we must combine entries into one document to send to our judges.
(2) The first page of your entry should be a cover sheet with name, affiliation, contact information, entry title and a 125-word bio (written in third person). We will delete this cover sheet when we combine entries to facilitate blind judging. Do not include author name or any other identifying information in the description section of your entry.
(3) The description section of your entry should be a TWO-PAGE executive summary and should include title, 100-word abstract, explanation of the teaching practice or activity, rationale, and outcomes.
Under no circumstances should the description exceed two pages in 12-point type with one-inch page margins.
(4) Examples of student outcomes, assignment details, or links to multimedia elements may be submitted as supporting details on up to two additional pages in an appendix within the Word or text document. Links may take judges to class sites, video links, social network pages or webpages as long as the instructor is not identified within those pages.
(5) Submit your entry as an attachment by email to Bonnie Brownlee at brownlee@indiana.edu. (Subject line should be “2013 AEJMC Teaching with Tools and Technologies (YOUR NAME).”) Copy the email entry to yourself as proof of submission.
(6) Confirmation of entry receipt will be sent via email within 48 hours of your submission. If you do not receive this, please call Bonnie Brownlee at 812-855-0570.
Criteria for Judging
The criteria to evaluate entries are as follows: (1) relevance of entry to Teaching with Tools and Technologies (10 points); (2) evidence of creativity or innovation (40 points); (3) interactivity and evidence of active and collaborative learning techniques (30 points); (4) compliance with format in Call for papers (10 points): (i). explanation of teaching/methodology, (ii). rationale, and (iii). outcomes; (5) overall impression or assessment (10 points).
Judging
The AEJMC Teaching Committee’s panel of judges will decide the winners. All entries will be blind judged. Judges will not have access to any identifying information about entrants. The judges reserve the right not to award prizes. Competition results will be announced by April 15.
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